"The Good Magician described it as 'contra-terrene.'". From Wordnik.com. [Cube Route]
The spectrum lines indicate massive CT-terrene annihilation. From Wordnik.com. [Passage at Arms]
"Demoness Fornax is the Demon of contra-terrene matter," she said. From Wordnik.com. [Cube Route]
As I understand it, normal matter is incompatible with contra-terrene matter. From Wordnik.com. [Cube Route]
Fourthly, For a terrene worldly estate or condition of men or things, Ps. lxxiii. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of Death in the Death of Christ] Reference
There is only one fruit of this terrene life, a pious disposition and social acts. From Wordnik.com. [The Meditations] Reference
"We terrene Demons do not have established mortal forms and do not live and die as they do," Jupiter explained. From Wordnik.com. [Up In A Heaval]
We have now been so long accustomed to this new light in the streets, that, like all other terrene goods, we have almost become insensible to its blessings. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 394, October 17, 1829] Reference
Superior to all terrene pursuits, he constantly cherished, and largely experienced, that blissful communion with Deity he so admirably describes in his writings. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Dr Owen] Reference
It is a matter for curious speculation that the missing species belong not to the lower subsidiary genera, as in terrene animals, but to the highest types of marine life. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873] Reference
Time effects less change on this colour than on other bright vegetal yellows; but white lead and other metalline pigments injure, while terrene and alkaline substances redden it. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
That we mortals have witnessed of wonders 'terrene. From Wordnik.com. [The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects] Reference
Whence, from the pores terrene, with foremost haste. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles] Reference
I admire, &c. Rather anti-solar and terrene nature!. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Remains, Volume 2] Reference
Agreed, but where in this terrene orb will you find it otherwise?. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Blue Begins] Reference
Labour to be disengaged from all terrene things, the things of this world. From Wordnik.com. [The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.] Reference
London atmosphere: it had already succeeded with the clouds of the terrene. From Wordnik.com. [David Elginbrod] Reference
There is only one fruit of this terrene life -- a pious disposition and social acts. From Wordnik.com. [Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus] Reference
There is only one fruit of this terrene life, -- a pious disposition and social acts. From Wordnik.com. [Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius] Reference
I must learn to ape their contempt of all and every terrene object, motive, and respect!. From Wordnik.com. [Anna St. Ives] Reference
Hélene, who could so well hear the terrene voices, yet keep her eye fixed on the stars. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I] Reference
The lady paused, as if to consider the weight of that event in the scale of terrene life. From Wordnik.com. [Two on a Tower] Reference
There is a patriotism of the soul whose claim absolves us from our other and terrene fealty. From Wordnik.com. [The Biglow Papers] Reference
I loved Helene, who could hear so well the terrene voices, yet keep her eye fixed on the stars. From Wordnik.com. [Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman.] Reference
When the contraterrene lead atoms met the terrene lead atoms, mutual annihilation resulted, giving us pure energy. From Wordnik.com. [Islands of Space] Reference
Christ's terrene body, and the subtle African heresiarch Sabellius who held that the Father was Himself His own Son. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
Which has no longer need of the gross and terrene sustenance, in the use of which Caesar and the beggar are on a level. From Wordnik.com. [Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies] Reference
What should he do, to be more worthy? by what devotion, call down the notice of these eyes to so terrene a being as himself?. From Wordnik.com. [The Dynamiter] Reference
But he had never been instructed for five minutes in the geography of his native county, of which he knew neither the boundaries nor the rivers nor the terrene characteristics. From Wordnik.com. [Clayhanger] Reference
But Emerson is as much his superior in that high and transparent sanity, which is not further removed from midsummer madness than it is from a terrene and grovelling mediocrity. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5, Emerson] Reference
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